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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Named Person: | Jazz; Paris |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William A Shack |
ISBN: | 0520225376 9780520225374 |
OCLC Number: | 45023134 |
Notes: | "George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies." |
Description: | xix, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. Making noise and stomping feet -- 2. Jazz from the trenches -- 3. Le jazz-hot : the roaring twenties -- 4. Jim Crow : sans domicile fixe -- 5. The golden age : the thirties -- 6. Le jazz-cold : the silent forties -- 7. Final notes : the liberation of jazz. |
Series Title: | Music of the African diaspora, 4. |
Responsibility: | William A. Shack. |
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Abstract:
During the years between the world wars, a small but dynamic community of African American jazz musicians left the US and settled in Paris. This book looks at this cultural moment, one in which African American musicians could flee the racism of the United States to pursue their lives and art in the relatively free context of bohemian Europe.
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